We need to be more than sorry. Treaty!!

Oh, and although it's compulsory, I've never heard of anyone actually getting fined. You just give an excuse. The main aim is that it sets an expectation. And the system supports postal votes and early voting, so it can fit in with your life.
We still elect an idiot on occasion. :)

We Australians have a great system. Compulsory and preferential. As a result everyone votes and if you want to protest, you put in a "donkey vote". Also we have an independent centralised agency that manages it. Very professional. Preferential means minor parties and independents are viable.

You have no idea how little some people think of the Trump presidency. I am proud of Anthony Albanese for his stand on Ukraine.

Latakia is where the First Crusaders got wood to build siege weapons when taking on Atakya (Antioch). The loss of life in Syria is a tragedy.
A smaller loss, but one that I mourn is the loss of history. My thoughts go out to the Syrians

They look very similar:

The top one looks like a red rumped parrot. Are they the same thing?

Oops. Just reread this and realised how it might sound. Let me rephrase: come to Australia where we love you.

Leave the country George. That's not the place for you anymore.

#dogs

Very Narnia

I see your corgi, and I raise it by a Lab

Not in Oz they're not...

Poor thing